Where is the Easter Bunny?

The Easter holidays are a magical time for children, so why not show them an Easter magic trick?

The Easter Bunny's relationship with eggs is puzzling. Perhaps in an imaginary universe, rabbits are monotremes, mammals that lay eggs. The Australian Platypus and Echidna are two extant species. Another possible solution is that we are dealing with the famous duck-rabbit illusion and should be talking about an Easter Duck!

Leaving mythology and zoology aside, the Easter bunny is a perfect topic for a magic trick, as rabbits and magicians share a long history.

Martin Gardner designed a magical puzzle involving rabbits and an Easter egg. Gardner first published the design in Parents Magazine and the magic magazine The Phoenix in 1952. The drawing also appeared in the seminal Mathematics, Magic and Mystery (1956).

Eleven rabbits are in the first picture. But an astonishing transformation occurs if you exchange the positions of rectangles A and B (click on the chevron to see the second version). An easter egg appears in the image, and one of the bunnies vanishes without a trace! Where does the bunny go? Which of the eleven rabbits is the one that disappears?

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Creating this Easter Magic Trick

Print this image and cut along the straight lines to create this magical puzzle. I have worked with an anonymous graphic designer on Fiverr to improve the graphics and add some colour. You can purchase a high-resolution version from Lybrary.com.

Vanishing Easter Bunny

A new design for an old geometric vanish. Eleven bunnies change into ten bunnies and an Easter egg by merely switching the order of two pieces of cardboard. The PDF includes the design. Print on paper or cardboard and cut out the three pieces to perform this little miracle.

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